Add as a preferred source on GoogleAiden Pleterski Testifies He Was Kidnapped at Gunpoint in 2022
He testified in a Toronto case against three defendants charged with kidnapping and extortion. Pleterski was convicted of fraud in a separate case in October.
Aiden Pleterski testified in a Toronto kidnapping and extortion case Friday, Nov. 13, that he was abducted at gunpoint in December 2022 and forced to demand as much as C$3 million. Three defendants are charged in the case and have pleaded not guilty.
Pleterski testified that he was beaten and made to call his former landlord to seek C$2 million to C$3 million. Prosecutors played a 13-second video that appeared to show a man pointing a gun at Pleterski as he knelt, then firing near his head.
In a separate case involving more than C$30 million in investor funds, Pleterski was convicted of fraud in October. He has not been sentenced. TokenPost previously covered Pleterski’s Toronto jury trial.
Riza Dagoc
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